Nigella Lawson's Emergency Brownies
International bestselling cookbook author Nigella Lawson shares an all-important chocolate fix from her latest book At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking.
- · Unsalted butter – 3 tablespoons, soft
- · Light brown sugar – ¼ cup
- · Maple or light corn syrup – 1 tablespoon
- · All-purpose flour – 3 tablespoons
- · Unsweetened cocoa powder – 3 tablespoons
- · Sea salt flakes – ¼ teaspoon or 1/3 teaspoon fine sea salt
- · Egg – 1 large, at room temperature
- · Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon
- · Walnut pieces – ½ cup
- · Chocolate chips – ¼ cup, dark or milk, as wished
Preheat the oven to 325°. Put the butter, sugar, and maple or light corn syrup into a small heavy-based saucepan and gently warm, stirring once or twice, until the butter’s melted and the sugar has dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat.
Fork together the flour, cocoa, and salt to mix, then beat into the butter and sugar pan with a wooden spoon or spatula until smoothly combined.
Transfer to a wire rack and let cool – but not completely. I leave them for 20- 30 minutes (and that’s difficult enough) so that my first bit gets them when still warm, but just set enough to cut into 2 squidgy squares. If your need is not so great, or you want them to go further, cut each square in half again.
Excerpt from 'At My Table: A Celebration of Home Cooking' by Nigella Lawson. Copyright © 2018 by Nigella Lawson. Used with permission by Flatiron Books. All rights reserved.